burntgarlic
11-11-2007, 06:44 PM
Help...
Sad Fact:
I'm new with the whole TiVo upgrading thing and brand new with Linux (just wanted to set the stage).
I have good skills with DOS base commands and Windows - doesn't seem to be much of a help though.
History:
I have a Toshiba RS-TX60 (TiVo Series 2 DVD-R/DVD-RW) that started to lock up after about 20 to 40 minutes following a reboot: the picture just freezes and the system then locks up, and the only recourse is to power down and reboot - the system will work for a few minutes and then lock again. With many years of PC troubleshooting as my reference, it seemed as though the Hard-drive was flaking out. I thought if I simply copied the TiVo drive to a newer drive, I could stick it back in the system and see if that fixes my initial problem.
What I've done so far
1.) Recently bought "Hacking the TiVo: 2nd edition" (I'll reference this book by typing "HTT" to save time) by Hagen, and this came with a boot-CD to assist the hacking process - also bought "Linux 2007 Edition Bible" book with a DVD and CD boot disk (the DVD boot disk does me no good since I only have a CD player in my old tower PC): I got this book because I though it would give me some commands to use similar to what I've used in the old DOS days.
2.) Pulled out an old tower PC of mine that runs a Pentium 2 and removed the Windows 98 HD
3.) Configured the Bios to boot from my the CD player
4.) Installed my TiVo HD configuring it as a Slave
4.) Installed a new Maxtor 500G HD and configured it as a Slave
5.) Confirmed that the PC recognizes both drives during the boot sequence
6.) Booted with the "Hacking the TiVo" (HTT) CD and selected the TiVo Series 2 boot option - got to the # prompt
7.) To confirm that the HTT CD (I guess this is a Linux based boot disk) was seeing each of the HD drives in the system, I typed the following command: mfstool info dev/hdb. This came back with some information that referenced "TiVo," so I believe this confirmed that hdb was the TiVo disk from where I wanted to "BACKUP" my data. I also typed: mfstool info dev/hda (I repeated for "c" and "d") but just got a response stating that there was a read error??? I'm trying to get the system to recognize the new drive, but I'm not sure what command I need to type in Linux to do that? I'm not sure if I am suppose to do a type of Format like I would do for a new Window's drive? And, if I am suppose to do that, I can't find how to see the drive or give the command at the prompt? This is where I need help. Even though I couldn't see hda (or hdc or hdd) for sure, I did the following step like the book says to do...
8.) I went ahead and typed the following command listed in the HTT book: mfstool backup-o - -a/dev/hdb|mfstool resore-i - -C-x/dev/hda (now keep in mind, I also tried to use hdc and hdd since I was fairly confident that hdb is the actual TiVo drive (I just can't seem to find the new drive that the bios in the PC seems to see just fine???)). Obviously, nothing backed up or copied over to the new drive).
Can anyone provide some support???
Thanks,
Burntgarlic
Sad Fact:
I'm new with the whole TiVo upgrading thing and brand new with Linux (just wanted to set the stage).
I have good skills with DOS base commands and Windows - doesn't seem to be much of a help though.
History:
I have a Toshiba RS-TX60 (TiVo Series 2 DVD-R/DVD-RW) that started to lock up after about 20 to 40 minutes following a reboot: the picture just freezes and the system then locks up, and the only recourse is to power down and reboot - the system will work for a few minutes and then lock again. With many years of PC troubleshooting as my reference, it seemed as though the Hard-drive was flaking out. I thought if I simply copied the TiVo drive to a newer drive, I could stick it back in the system and see if that fixes my initial problem.
What I've done so far
1.) Recently bought "Hacking the TiVo: 2nd edition" (I'll reference this book by typing "HTT" to save time) by Hagen, and this came with a boot-CD to assist the hacking process - also bought "Linux 2007 Edition Bible" book with a DVD and CD boot disk (the DVD boot disk does me no good since I only have a CD player in my old tower PC): I got this book because I though it would give me some commands to use similar to what I've used in the old DOS days.
2.) Pulled out an old tower PC of mine that runs a Pentium 2 and removed the Windows 98 HD
3.) Configured the Bios to boot from my the CD player
4.) Installed my TiVo HD configuring it as a Slave
4.) Installed a new Maxtor 500G HD and configured it as a Slave
5.) Confirmed that the PC recognizes both drives during the boot sequence
6.) Booted with the "Hacking the TiVo" (HTT) CD and selected the TiVo Series 2 boot option - got to the # prompt
7.) To confirm that the HTT CD (I guess this is a Linux based boot disk) was seeing each of the HD drives in the system, I typed the following command: mfstool info dev/hdb. This came back with some information that referenced "TiVo," so I believe this confirmed that hdb was the TiVo disk from where I wanted to "BACKUP" my data. I also typed: mfstool info dev/hda (I repeated for "c" and "d") but just got a response stating that there was a read error??? I'm trying to get the system to recognize the new drive, but I'm not sure what command I need to type in Linux to do that? I'm not sure if I am suppose to do a type of Format like I would do for a new Window's drive? And, if I am suppose to do that, I can't find how to see the drive or give the command at the prompt? This is where I need help. Even though I couldn't see hda (or hdc or hdd) for sure, I did the following step like the book says to do...
8.) I went ahead and typed the following command listed in the HTT book: mfstool backup-o - -a/dev/hdb|mfstool resore-i - -C-x/dev/hda (now keep in mind, I also tried to use hdc and hdd since I was fairly confident that hdb is the actual TiVo drive (I just can't seem to find the new drive that the bios in the PC seems to see just fine???)). Obviously, nothing backed up or copied over to the new drive).
Can anyone provide some support???
Thanks,
Burntgarlic